2025 REU Final Talk Schedule

Tuesday July 29

10:50 Lizzie Flores / Stellar Populations of Edge-On Galaxies

11:10 Reagan Thompson / Exploring Spin-Mixing Dynamics in Bosonic Systems Beyond the Mean-Field Approximation

11:30 Aiden Guild / Rotating Polarizer for an Atomic Force Microscope

11:50 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 Silas Goodman / Flat Band Structures

13:20 Hermoine Hernandez / Data Analysis for Low Signal to Noise Ratio Quasars

13:40 Aubrey McNiel / Magneto-optical trap for ultracold sodium gases

14:00 Kevin Warren / Optical Frequency Comb: Self-Referencing Precision Calibrations

Wednesday July 30

10:50 Sheina Peralta / Dynamics of polar-aligned Circumbinary Discs with applications to Planet Formation

11:10 Sue Lind / Twin Beam Generation in Hot Sodium Vapors

11:30 Rose Crawford / Impact of crystalline packing motifs on excitonic states in the Porphyrin family

11:50 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 Nicholas Townsend / Photoluminescence Measurements on GaAs Thin Film

13:20 Aaniyah Gamble / Creating Heterostructures of 2-D Materials

13:40 Freda Dong / Depositing WO_3 Thin Films on LaAlO_3 Using Pulsed Laser Deposition

14:00 James Byrd / SiC Grating Fabrication and Phonon-Polariton Excitations